Category: Prayer

REFLECTIONS OF A SOBER CHICKEN THIEF- published by Nothing Changes Press

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Thought For The Day: I’ve got no time for quotes today. No time. I was called to speak today. Not called by God…by another person at the meeting. The topic was the Fourth Step. I don’t remember what I said but I don’t think it had much to do with the Fourth Step.

Reflection For The Day: At least three people walked out of the room during my share. Sons of bitches.

It started when I was a kid. The Old Man would stumble in around 3am and Mom would be in the front room waiting for him. Waiting so she could tell him he was a “drunken son of a bitch.”

And he was.

And he knew he was…but he didn’t like hearing it.

And, why she always picked the pre-dawn hours to tell him the very thing he didn’t want to hear, I have yet to figure out.

And, why she’d always act surprised when The Old Man would shout, cuss, scream, and throw furniture across the room, was also beyond me.

When, I was eight or nine, I’d get out of bed and try to stop my parents from hurting, sometimes, perhaps, from killing each other. By the time I was ten, I had given up on them. Yeah, by then, I’d just stay in bed, close my eyes and turn “it” off.

The noise.

And it worked.

Years later, some one told me I was a “natural at empty mind” technique.

I can’t really say I remember the topic of this morning’s meeting. I was too busy working on a poem for some blog school. I just signed on so I could get back to writing poetry every day. And it’s been good though this “pasting” business from the smart phone has been a challenge coz I’ve had to learn as I go….to work, to pick up Joey from school, to my regular gig, to my pick up gigs, to Grocery, drug and department stores….yes, learn as I go and the only time I sit for an hour and write is in the morning, at the meeting.

Oh, yeah, it was on character defects and character assassination. I said, “I possess the former over flowing and I engage in the later more than I like to admit though it will be obvious to anyone wanting to stick around and eavesdrop on me after the meeting. I’m the sign you see displayed on vacant construction sites asking you to “Pardon Our Progress.”

And, when it came to me, I said, “I
go to AA when I want to
complain about religion. I
go to church when
I want to complain
about AA.
And I
become
an atheist when
my complaint
is with both
communities.

Besides,
being an
atheist is an
indication,
to some,
of an advanced
intellect.

In other words,
I just might
be too
smart
to get
sober.

I haven’t had
a drink or any other
type of drug in over 37
years but, as long as I’m still
takin’ breath…well, that’s
why I keep comin’
back. Thank
you.”